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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this chance again to second a very important Motion tabled by none other than Mr. Ojode, the former Assistant Minister for Education. I believe he has all the details as he has articulated them very ably in the House this morning. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to tell the House that there is need to recruit more teachers. There is need to plan for our education system in this country. There is need to think ahead and imagine that one day, Kenya will be a giant like the tigers of the South East Asia. There is need to think about our policy and the mood that we have in our country. We, therefore, need to address our own education system and come up with a formula of how to address the future of this country. If we think about the children that we have, we should think about how they will translate this country into an industrial country. But the problem is our education system. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our education system is faulty. It is true that we produce mass children to sit for examination in class eight and they drop out. Many do not proceed to secondary schools. Out of those who join secondary schools, only 10,000 qualify to join our public universities. We must, therefore, think about what is wrong with our system. Our system, therefore, is mainly pegged on what happens in our schools. As the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, we have been able to traverse this country a lot. We found some shocking situations where children were seated on the ground and some were on their toes. In some instances, we found over 120 children in one class. We were taken to Mumias where were found that there are 250 children seating in Class One with one teacher. Therefore, what Mr. Ojode has articulated in this House is true. The only question is, for April 18, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 705 how long are we going to continue talking about the shortage of teachers, the number of students increasing and yet nothing is happening? If that is what we are going to keep talking about 45 years after Independence, I think we are hiding the truth about our country. Let us be serious and focus particularly on the quality of the system of education."
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